Summary
We learned a lot in this chapter about Selenium WebDriver and all of the different browsers that it supports and how we can use them.
Specifically, we covered the following topics:
FirefoxDriver: We saw how easy it is to get started with WebDriver and Firefox and how we can go about setting preferences and installing add-ons. We also saw how we can tell FirefoxDriver where to launch Firefox from.
ChromeDriver: This is another easy driver to use. Once we added the ChromeDriver executable that we downloaded to our
PATH
environment variable, we were able to use the driver. We also saw how we can tweak settings before the browser loads if we want to install extensions or if we want to set the location of the Chromium binary.OperaDriver: In this section, we learned how to use OperaDriver to work against our web application. We were also able to change the preferences of the browser before it loaded so that we can test it as users will find it.
InternetExplorerDriver: In this section,...